Re: Perl5 is looking for termcap?
Install termcap-compat and that will eliminate the
error message. Not sure why it occurs, but that fixes
it.
Todd
On Fri, 07 Jan 2000, Shaul Karl wrote:
> As far as I know, by default Debian does not use termcap.
> There for, I consider the following a bug somewhere.
>
> Cannot find termcap: Can't find a valid termcap file at
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/Term/ReadLine.pm line 305
>
> Am I right? Whose package is responsible?
>
>
> The more complete picture is the following:
>
> [04:14:04 /tmp]# apt-get dist-upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Calculating Upgrade... Done
> 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> 5 packages not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B/118kB of archives. After unpacking 62.5kB will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> Cannot find termcap: Can't find a valid termcap file at
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/Term/ReadLine.pm line 305
>
> Configuring packages ...
> (Reading database ... 37904 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace debconf 0.2.60 (using .../debconf_0.2.65_all.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement debconf ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/debconf_0.2.65_all.deb
> (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite directory `/usr/sbin' in package logrotate with
> nondirectory
> Cannot find termcap: Can't find a valid termcap file at
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/Term/ReadLine.pm line 305
>
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/debconf_0.2.65_all.deb
> E: Sub-process returned an error code (1)
> [04:15:36 /tmp]#
>
> The debconf error is already reported by someone else.
>
>
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